ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,487,625, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to CTS Corp. (Lisle, Ill.).
"Vehicular pedal assembly" was invented by John Clark (Granger, Ind.) and Kevin Wolschlager (Elkhart, Ind.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicular pedal assembly includes a pedal including a first support and a second support, a pedal shaft supported by the pedal housing for rotation about a pedal axis, a pedal arm drivably engaged with the pedal shaft to rotate the pedal shaft about the pedal axis, and a position sensor assembly coupled to the pedal shaft and operable to determine a rotational position of the pedal shaft and generate a signal based on the rotational p...